Viraj being a creeper:

Mikey successfully wooing Viraj:

Mikey whispering sweet nothings to Viraj:

What Nancy feels for Sam after Viraj’s apparent fling with Mikey:

This was my favorite:

The dessert was pretty crazy. I don’t even know what was in it.

It was pretty cold… I think when we got in it was somewhere in the lower teens.

We went to the John Hancock Observatory which was pretty cool. Nice view of the city.

I think this one is funny because it looks like an ad photo.

The day after Alinea, we went to Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak and Stone Crab, which was pretty awesome. This is the same restaurant I went to in Las Vegas.

After that, we had stuffed pizza and Chinese:

The next day, we had brunch and italian and visited The Bean:

The last day… I don’t remember the place. It was good but not memorable. It did have wood ice-cream though.

We also…

• Saw Les Misérables, which was enjoyable.
• Saw a small play that was put together with various real love/break-up letters. It was amusing.

I also decided to get a new receiver because my Onkyo was kind of crapping out and having issues with certain inputs. Decided to get a Pioneer VSX-1020-K, which I just got today and installed. I’m now letting Star Trek play to “break it in” (I don’t think I need to do that). While installing the receiver, I discovered that some punk had unplugged my subwoofer and who knows how long that’s been that way. Hmph.

In other food related news, I booked a reservation at Alinea!

Oh, also, here are a lot of Olivers from the past year or so of blog posts (click for larger version).

My sleep schedule has been kind of messed up this past week initially due to jet-lag, but I didn’t do a whole lot to fix it. I’ve been falling asleep at around 5PM with the intention of waking up in an hour or two, but I keep on sleeping through my alarms and waking up in the 3AM-5AM range. However, with some help of some HoN play time, I managed to stay up until midnight last night so hopefully my schedule will have righted itself for this coming week.

It’s also my mom’s birthday today. Happy birthday, mother!

There was a Korean place in this alley that was awesome:

I like to think of this as SAW VII: PANDAMONIUM:

I picked my own fish to steam from this lot of live seafood:

It was mighty yummy. =)

Clown barf!

This chili-crab in Singapore, OMan recommended, was also rather yummy.

Lots more photos on flickr.

I also made a movie trailer starring Melissa!

Viraj and I had a lot of fun with this one. Except for the names, all the text is default.

Last night, I summoned Sam over so Viraj and I could show him the above video. Then, we told him to go home. Haha… actually, we made him drive us to Walgreens where we purchased milk, chips, beef jerky, ramen, sardines, and tuna. I think Viraj may have gotten some other stuff but I can’t remember. Viraj made the dark hot chocolate I got from Seattle, which was pretty rich. I think as far as hot chocolate goes, milk chocolate is the way to go… it was like drinking a melted dark chocolate bar… haha. Then, we watched part of a high school football game at 3AM. That was awesome.

Here are a few shots of the Wong family opening presents, and related shenanigans:

Then, at around 1AM on Christmas day, Steph and I repeated our early morning IHOP run with Sam, Heather and Viraj this time (last year OMan and Mikey were there). We ended up staying there until 6:30AM. Craaazy.

We also didn’t let Christmas get in the way of our usual ultimate game, so we rounded up a group of six and headed to the field with the wind blowing and the temperature in the 40′s. We ended up revising the rules so that the frisbee was still live if it was rolling which caused quite a bit of hilarity. We played until until a team scored five and got out of there. Heather invited me over to Jimmy’s for dinner and they (plus Steph) cooked dinner which I was able to mooch off of… woo!

Now it’s time for me to play with iMovie… adios. =)

I went to see The Blistering Speeds at Spider House with a bunch of BVers (Al and Scotty are in the band).

After that, I hung out for a few hours with Steph, Heather, OMan, Sam and Ryan. I also uploaded some photos I took for a photobook I made for Melissa…

On Sunday, Heather and Steph came over and OMan, Sam and I joined their scheduled P90X exercise which was intense. I think Melissa and I will start it when she comes back next year. Sam has also committed to doing it, so we’ll see how that goes. =)

Speaking of Sam… there is now a new Samitic.us post all about Sam Ni.

On Sunday, my mom locked my car keys in my car, so I slept while she obtained my spare key. Wooooooo.

I’ve been watching Veronica Mars and I just finished the first season. Man, that would have been a frustrating season finale and they even tease you throughout the first episode of the second season before resolving the cliff-hangers. Glad I don’t have to wait. =) Enjoyable show.

More photos.

On Saturday, Sam tried to molest Kat on the ultimate field. I’ll post more about that on Samitic.us sometime… along with some videos of Sam from the birthday party.